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Scouts of America Homosexual compromise still bring confusion to young people

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The Boy Scouts of America will propose a measure to allow openly gay members to join the Scouts for the first time in its century-long history, despite the fact that a survey found almost two-thirds of stakeholders support the current policy, the organization announced on Friday.  The resolution would allow homosexual scouts to join, but ban adult homosexuals from being scoutmasters. “No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone,” the proposal states. The Scouts board has decided to allow  1,400 members to vote on May 20  on the measure after declining to take a position in February. The BSA released a statement saying it had received 200,000 responses to its questionaire on the policy. In a  summary of its findings , it found, “Respondents support the current policy by a 61 percent to 34 percent margin.” Fully “72 percent of chartered organizations support” the current policy ...

Gay Activists bully the Boy Scouts

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Image via Wikipedia Church Colson. I’ve been warning you that the current push to legitimize homosexual conduct and so-called gay “marriage” represents today’s greatest threat to religious liberty.  I’ve told you about attacks against iPhone apps for the Manhattan Declaration and Exodus International , as well as a boycott of Chick-fil-a . Their crime? Supporting marriage as only between a man and a woman and having the temerity to not support so-called gay “marriage.” The Boy Scouts ’ politically incorrect stands on homosexuality and atheism have long put this great organization in the extremists’ cross-hairs, and now the pressure is getting even more intense. The Scouts prohibit open homosexuals from serving as leaders. That’s because the organization believes that “homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed.” How’s that for straight talking, friends? But now, in th...